Yale University will hold a campus-wide open house for the public on Saturday, October 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. At 10:30 a.m., University President Richard C. Levin and New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. will preside at a welcome ceremony on Hewitt...
Comedian Bill Cosby will visit Yale University on Friday, November 10 to appear at a benefit for Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership at Woolsey Hall, corner of Grove and College streets, at 8:00 p.m. Cosby is donating his time for this...
The third annual Yale Physics Olympics Competition, which is designed to stimulate interest in physics among high school students and to support physics teachers, will be held October 21. About 200 high school seniors from Connecticut and New York will...
Protein toxins found in bacteria that are the most common culprit in food poisoning attack and destroy DNA, a study by Yale researchers shows. The finding, published in the journal Science, is significant because little is known about how these bacteria...
Yale University announced today that the Yale College Class of 1954 is providing a $70 million gift to support new science buildings and other major University priorities, marking the largest class gift in Yale’s 300-year history. The gift is the...
Yale University has been awarded $4.6 million from the Human Brain Project to help organize the huge volume of neuroscience research data being generated by scientists. The Human Brain Project, which is coordinated by the National Institute of Mental...
Brain scans of children born prematurely show key areas of the brain are much smaller than those of children born at full-term, a study by Yale researchers has found. The researchers conducted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans on 25 eight-year-olds...
Cancer epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll, who was the first to identify smoking as a leading cause of lung cancer, will receive the C-E.A. Winslow Medal from Yale University Oct. 19. The award is the first Winslow medal conferred by the School of Medicine...
Teasing people about their general appearance, more so than making fun of their weight and size, may play a role in binge eating disorder, a study by Yale researchers shows. “What we discovered from interviewing women with binge eating disorder is that...
A national survey of 3,000 adults on what they know about child development shows serious gaps in basic knowledge, says a Yale psychiatrist and president of a group that acted as the chief scientific collaborator on the survey. Kyle Pruett, M.D., a...